I don't see how you could get a rear facing seat in the car...even if you are short. Especially, the true infant car seats that have the more recline position. Forward facing works okay.
Thought i saw someplace where it could be done with the baby seay in the center of the rear seat faceing backwards and it was a very tight fit..
Recaro's on STD sport seats ??
^This.. I was able to get a rear facing seat in the middle. It sucks leaning over so far to get it there, but it's only temporary. Just remember that not all car seats are created equal and larger does not necessarily mean safer. Choose the smallest rear facing seat possible that still tests well. An extra few bucks may be the difference between a quality seat that's 2 feet from front to back and one that is 3 feet.
I don't know for sure but I think the Recaro's may have a little less room in the back seat because of the heavily bolsterd backs but I can't find the thread .. yet.. Here is what I was thinking I read linky
I can fit the rear facing infant on passenger side and a toddler seat on driver side forward facing. Haven't tried rear facing toddler. This is a tight fit though.
I have a 3 year old in a rear facing sunshine kids radian xtsl or something like that. It's a taller but thinner seat. Also have an 'angle adjuster' made by the same company, Diono works pretty well but still leaves little room in the front for a passenger. But doable.
I have another baby coming in May so if I have to I'll be attempting to fit a basket seat and forward face the other. I have recaros too.
I posted in one of the threads that Rodmoe linked, but with my car seat (Chicco keyfit 30) did NOT fit with the Recaros, but did fit with the standard seats (in the middle only)
EDIT: lol just realized that post was on another ST forum... if only we could merge them...
It can be done. It worked best for me to have the seat mounted in the center. That way it could ride between the two front seats. The leading edge of the baby seat wound up right behind my shoulders. With the seat in the middle, it does limit additional backseat passengers to very slender people.
I started a thread on Fiestast.org called "the FiST will baby" or something like that, that has pictures. It also has pics of stuff like the stroller and pack & play loaded in the trunk. If you need, I can re-post pictures.
All I know is that if I Google "baby seat in Fiesta ST" or "babe seat in Fiesta ST" (which returns a VERY different set of responses, btw--or so I've heard! :angel, I'm gonna have to answer questions from my wife I really don't wanna answer, so . . . .
Putting the seat in the middle worked best for me. It's more of a reach to put the baby in, but it almost doesn't matter how far back the front seats are.
Silvertoy raises a great point. I was looking to fit a forward facing seat into the back "seat" of our '83 Porsche 911. The store manager let me carry seat after seat out to the parking lot until I found one that fit. Btw, some folks like baby in the middle; more margin in the event of a side impact.
I'm 6 feet and my wife is also tall. We have a 2 y/o and we have mounted the seat in the middle front facing. Bottom line is that it does fit but it's tight. My wife seats next to the baby and she complaints sometimes, but mostly for the stiff ride on the winter after math roads...
I could slide the passenger seat a little more but then my other daughter would have to move it all the time she gets in, which is not convent I think I found a good setting that works for both.
As for the car seat, the key is to pick one that is on the small size. I don't think a full size one will fit.
Rear facing child seats are very much over rated. I have a 2 year old and I have found that if I just put the little guy in the rear seat with the normal seat belt it works very well. You just have to tuck the shoulder belt behind him. It keeps him in place good enough for a small car. Our car seat could not fit and this works out well.
While this is true and there is a great TED talk where an economist shows car seats are no safer than seat belts for kids over 2. It's against the law in my state, Michigan, for any child to ride in a vehicle under the age of 4 without a car seat, and illegal for any child under the age of 8 or under 4'9" to ride in a car without a booster seat.
Not joking at all, if you are over 30 you probably lived in the back of a station wagon jumping around and making faces at people behind you. Most of the time i strap my kid down into the back seat but sometimes i just let him have fun and do not buckle him in.
I'm sure your kid would have a ball hanging on to the roof, or smoking crack, but you're not gonna let him/her do that are you? Just because you did something as a kid, and made it out alive, doesn't mean that it suddenly becomes okay for every subsequent generation. Anecdote much? We grow and learn from the past, one thing learned is that kids belong in a car seat. Yea, parents are overprotective today and coddle their children too much, but not because they are putting them in a car seat.
I wear a seatbelt every time I get in the car. You can be damn sure my kids will be doing the same.
I am not, however, a car seat nazi type that keeps their kid in a rear facing seat until they are 5 or older, that's overprotective behavior.
I learned the hard way when a panic stop to avoid a "sunday driver" sent my son face first into the dash. needless hr's days weeks to get his front teeth set right again and I look at that every time he smiles.. I beatmyself up pretty good about that for a long long time to the point where we HAD to get the kids fullface helmets to ride snowmobiles and ATV's sitting in front of Us they had a good chance to eat the handle bars too.. But life teaches us all lessons in time ... To each their own but It's tough to look at your little kid bleeding knowing I was suppose to protect him till he was old enough to do it.. (soap box put away now)
thats why i keep him in the back. less risk back there.
i love the look on people's faces when they see him back there not strapped down to anything. I actually had a woman call a cop on me one time. but that was when he was an infant.
Come to think of it i did have a close call a few months ago. My son was jumping around the back seat with a popsicle and i slammed on the breaks and the stick went half way down his throat. Poor kid was blue by the time i pulled over and pulled it out.
But i look at this as a good lesson for him. He will think twice about eating and dripping a grape popsicle on my rear Recaros.
As a firefighter, I am too sickened to comment further on this. I respond to many accidents, cutting cars apart to rescue people, et al. Your behavior about not belting in your child is CRIMINAL!!! You are putting him/her at risk for no reason when you have the tools in the car to help to keep them from harm.
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